Comment 14 for bug 645300

> Does this mean this package review will be blocked?

 I certainly hope so, it would be a significant mistake to ship this.

> What about packages like smart and apt-rpm that do things differently to yum
> and the core distro?

 Noone is saying you can't ship PK. I'm pretty sure noone cares about the review for the tools that generate/consume the metadata in this package.
 But if smart decided that the md5sums in our repomd.xml was hard to deal with, so they'd just ship a smart-pkg-data ... then, yeh, I'd say that was a bad idea and would try and block it.

> Sure, but we search in the locale, and hence we need that data upfront.

 Again, the textual part of the data is _tiny_ ... even more so for updates (the bit that changes). And I'd be surprised if it changed anywhere near as often as primary/etc.
 The fact you have tied icons with the textual data in this implementation doesn't mean you have to continue to do that in another one.